Somewhere, spread across a 20-kilometer debris field in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, there are answers to what happened to Kogalmavia Flight 9268. But whether the victims’ families – and the rest of the world – will ever get those answers remains to be seen. Flight 9268 crashed just minutes after takeoff on Saturday, killing all 224 […]

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A Russian aircraft carrying 224 people, including 17 children, crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists, the Egyptian government said. There were no survivors, the Russian Embassy in Cairo said on […]

A small number of US special operations forces will be deployed to northern Syria to work with local ground forces in the fight against Islamic State militants, senior US officials said Friday, marking the first time American troops will be working openly on the ground in the war-torn country. Although the number is small, only […]

Now he’s spitting rhymes in hell. Denis Cuspert, a German-born rapper who called himself Deso Dogg, once bragged that Jihad was “a lot of fun.” He had tattoos on his fists that read “Str8 Thug” and sang in ISIS propaganda videos, threatened global leaders, and considered himself a hardcore terrorist. Cuspert ended his rap career […]

New reports from US defense officials and intelligence operatives say that Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns that the Russians could be studying how to sever the lines in the case of war. The issue goes beyond old worries during […]